It has been two months since the last posts and besides time not much has changed. Things have not gone worse but on the other hand without a diagnosis and treatment it is difficult to expect significant improvement. I am mostly writing this post for the sake of it, and, Read more…
My situation has not really improved since my last post. Training still feels not great sometimes and I am at a point where it is starting to get hard to tell the difference between what doesn’t feel great and what is just bad shape. In light of this unclear outlook Read more…
It is winter and in a way I am training but at the same time is it far from what I generally consider winter-training. My blog-posting rate can often be an indicator of how it is going because it means there is some event to write about, be it positive Read more…
EOC in Italy was not a failure but neither did I manage to qualify for any final race which was disspointing
The orienteering season slowly comes to an end. Ater Switzerland last year it is apparently Italy´s turn again to hold the last Worldcup round in form of the European Sprint Championships in the region of Verona. Since ASOM, my ankle has been getting more and more stable so I dared Read more…
Okay, I know the title is a bit of a click-bait. I might as well have written addicted to elite orienteering but this sounds less destructive. However, does the title not come from pure harmony so let the diary entry begin. In August I finally spend some time with the Read more…
It has been a while simply because I wasn´t really running any races. With the second World-Cup round in the Czech Republic my international season will finally start as well. Pushing goals back, is what this season feels like so far. Already the word season feels wrong to describe this Read more…
Analyzing this year´s 10Mila results together with current WRE-data.
After many weeks of almost problem-free winter training, I hit a bumb in the road. A quite unlucky timing lead to a missed season start, leaving me basically without much race experience so far this year. But I am finally ahead of things again and am looking forward to running Read more…
This post is about my personal frustration with (official) sports sponsoring and sports-related scholarships in Germany. I needed to put my thoughts into words, for my own sake and to make it at least a bit more public.